Week 0 - March 31st

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Week 0: Investigation

The deadline is fast approaching and the one thing that should be on everyone’s minds is, “what’s going to happen now?” Last night there was a strong thunderstorm, and thanks to it the air still feels cold, moist, and even a little murky. Droplets of water cover many surfaces outside, and there are few clouds hanging in the sky. It’s rather fitting weather given, in just a few hours, all of your lives will be claimed. Have you made peace with this seemingly unavoidable outcome?

Whether you have or haven’t, it would appear your musings are doomed to be interrupted. Outside the motel sirens can be heard as a patrol car zooms by. Maybe nothing’s wrong, and maybe it’s something unrelated to everyone’s current situation.

...but, even if it is, how many of you can really sit around and do nothing? The events of the 30th proved how eager to help some of you are—enough so to put even your own lives in danger.

Abruptly, the patrol car makes a sharp turn and disappears out of sight.

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Comments

[clearities]

[So guess who's still alive?

Sakura's going to be noticing that patrol car but -- let's go ahead and check if anyone's fucked up the diner, first of all.]

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[Thank goodness nobody fucked up the diner. The employees here greet cheerfully, ready to start making breakfasts.

Looks like everything's in order over here!]

[doublelammy]

[Millium feels off, and her chest hurts just like it did on the night before... well.

There's no use dwelling on that. Sitting here and waiting is helping no one, so out of her room she goes.

Anything interesting immediately outside?]

[cartesio]

[The common areas of the motel are okay. The storage is as gloomy as ever, the entrance to the motel still has nobody manning it, and the lounge only has cheap sofas and bowls of snacks.

Looks like everything is okay in the motel]

[alfin]

[ Alfin had been laying in bed when she heard the siren. She curled up in on herself for just a moment. ]

Please, no more fire...

[ She whispered softly to herself before getting up out of bed and leaving her bedroom. She walks through the hallway and down to the lounge. If anyone else is there, she'll ask them: ]

Do you know what that siren was about?

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[The motel areas are fine. Looking as cheap and average as usual, but fine]

[londonstar]

[ waver is going to be heading towards the gas station in search for the patrol car! anything there? ]

[cartesio]

[Well Sakura is there, but she's alive and kicking. Other than that, no patrol car in sight over here]

[detegoergosum]

[ Leave it to the detective to follow that car. Whichever way it's headed, that's where Naoto is off to.

So, which way is it headed? ]

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[It went in direction to the park!]

[beanstarscream]

[well, fuck.

...

let's just go to the park until the sergeant tracks him down and kills him he guesses.]

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[The park is a popular place today]

BODY ANNOUNCEMENT

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[Millium's scream may have gotten people's attention. Once some have gathered in the area, the air around you seems to turn a little more oppressive than it already was. It's because there's one person more among you, having arrived stealthily. He has a megaphone in his hand, and is moving measurely and parsimoniously, like he's trying to put his thoughts in order. He glances up at the head hanging from the branch]

...that wasn’t what I expected, to be completely frank with you.

[Better fulfil his duty and get things going, though -- there’s a lot yet to be done. The Sergeant clacks his heels together and addresses everyone who is gathered here through the megaphone]

A life has been cut short. Lovepon is dead, and the culprit is one of you remaining twenty-one participants. Allow me to thank you for taking the right choice -- it would have been so wasteful to get rid of twenty-two promising people.

[He steps back]

I advise you to investigate. Don’t bother the townspeople, just focus on what you have to do. The relevant places will have police cars there, I’m sure you can find them. Gather as much information as you can for the trial, and meet me at the courtroom in two hours. We are on a tight timetable here, don’t dawdle.

[Without even bothering to explain what he means by the trial, he leaves. This day started badly and it can only get worse, everyone]

BODY INFORMATION

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[There seems to be a small file on one of the benches, generously left there by the Sergeant]

Victim: Lovepon
Time of Death: Around 9:00 PM
Location of the Body: Park

EVIDENCE LIST

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Ice Cream Shop

If only water was red
People need to listen to the health department
An entire moderator on the table -- okay, not really

Hunting Store (2/2)

Inventory
This is why inventory is done

Park (10/10)

The head tells you something
So does this arm
There's the other arm
Mud isn't a reliable place to look for footprints
If only it hadn't rained last night
Thank the heavens the pond wasn't too deep
As if the dismembering wasn't enough
Maybe leave this at the Lost & Found
Finally some good luck for you
Good thing animals like to stockpile

ICE CREAM SHOP

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[doublelammy]

[Well, Millium HAD been on her way here anyway, and as soon as they were given the order to investigate, she went scrambling.

Do you know what Millium is not ready to deal with today? Lovepon heads and two other screaming, crying little girls, that's what. So she's on her way back to Plan A and drowning all this uneasiness with way too much ice cream and -

Damn it, there's a police car here. Stop ruining Plan A for her!

Anything of interest outside the shop, or should she go in?]

AREA CLEAR

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HUNTING STORE

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[streetwolf]

[Wayne, in all his nasty crimeboy glory. Ran off the moment he heard the sirens, dodging into an alley and going the other way. Heading towards the shop. And cringing at the other car.]

Here too? Damn...

[Anything of interest from across the street?

Or have sergeant's words travelled that far already?]

[beanstarscream]

[LOOK HE IS GETTING THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE PARK AND TRYING TO CHECK OUT SOMETHING ELSE.

let's see. since Wayne's going in, he's going to check around the sides and back of the outside of the store.]

AREA CLEAR

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PARK

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[theserpentsmiles]

[Let's get right to it. Nagisa isn't one to freeze up, and he's an observant one. So let's just sidle right up to that tree and start observing. We have a head, where's the body? Start with the head. And neck.

What can we see about how it was removed from its body?]

[londonstar]

[ since he's already here, waver might as well begin by examining....the head. ]

Excuse me, my Lady.

[ anything worthy of noticing around the cut? was it a clean slice or did it look like it took many tries for it to be severed? ]